Installing Office 2003 via GPO - not upgrading XP correctly

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Quitch

I have a number of machines running Office XP and we are looking to deploy
Office 2003 to them. I setup an MST using the Office toolkit which I told to
handle previous office installations using the setup defaults and to install
ALL Office 2003 components to the local drive. The MSI and MST were then put
into a computer GPO and linked to an Active Directory OU.

When a machine with no Office detects this package it isntalls Office 2003
exactly as specified, with all components. However, if a machine running
Office XP runs the package it removes Office XP but then only installs the
elements of Office 2003 which weren't in the XP install, so if the machine
had Word XP then Word 2003 is not installed but InfoPath 2003 is.

I've triple-checked the MST and it looks fine, I even tried changing the MST
to tell it to remove ALL previous Office files, but this hasn't made a
difference.

Anyone got any ideas?
 

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